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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote] But for secondary school teachers there was increased risk of illness without the masks.

So mask kids 12+ like Denmark. Masking 2-7 year olds al day long is cruel. Pediatricians in Canada agree.

I agree. I don’t know why we can’t have some middle ground here- some states have ditched masks altogether while here we force toddlers to wear them despite it being developmentally inappropriate and when it’s been shown transmission among young kids is low.

+1. Your daycare kids are going to have some funny looking ears. And I cannot understand why people think it’s fine for toddlers and preschoolers to go 5 days per week for an entire year, without seeing facial expressions. One day we will look back at our treatment of children during this pandemic with horror.

The kids 5 and under won’t even remember this year. Funny looking ears? Do you hear yourself? wtf is wrong with you[/quote]

What does not remembering it have to do with being harmful to their development? They aren’t getting something that’s of value most of their waking hours during the week? Are you going to argue that facial responses of caregivers are not important during early childhood development? There is a reason the WHO recommends against masking kids under 6. Their guidelines are much more thoughtful than CDC’s.

“Surgical masks with ear loops can be harmful to the correct development of the auricle by permanently modifying the cartilage of the concha in growing children.”

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7302120/

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Just sew elastics that go around their heads. Not that hard.[/quote]

Whenever we’ve tried the elastics around the head they slip down.  My toddler still has slippery baby fine hair which probably doesn’t help, but I feel like I’m missing some special trick to make this easier for my 2yo. So many people here don’t seem to have trouble and I feel like an idiot.[/quote]

For my in school kid we loop that over a ponytail. For the younger one we put the elastic around a hat. It’s worked well in fall/winter with wool hats. Gotta figure it out for summer. Maybe a baseball hat.[/quote]

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